Intense Family Drama on the Horizon

Calls and invitations are being sent to all the relatives now that my sister is getting married and everyone seems pretty excited about it. While I'm dead scared about what happens when all these people come under the same roof together.

Our extended family like any other Indian family has camps which are highly politicised. Each family has to decide which camp they want to be in. While insecurities made a lot of those families to join some camp or the other, my parents boldly decided to fly solo. It means we do not lick other people's butt and don't give a shit of what's happening in other sides of the border. So its a phone call every once in a while to ask if they are still alive and formal invitations to marriages and funerals and vice-versa.

It wasn't easy for my parents to cut off the strings but the decision was taken after they faced years of pretence, drama, back-stabbing and back-bitching, insults hurled behind their backs, intended misunderstandings, unnecessary fighting and verbal abusing amongst them over petty matters and coming back together in the evening as if nothing happened (no self esteem at all), JEALOSY and yes, death threats. The list in fact goes on and on. They got fed up of so much of drama and being dragged into them each day that they made the decision to step backwards and let them enjoy their lives whatever way they want to, while we breath in peace and serenity. GO DADDY AND MOMMY!!! U ROCK

I put jealousy in bold and there's a reason why. A lot of this "stone age" drama stems from the jealousy they nurture in their hearts against us. Our family is the most civilised, most well fed, with distinct reputation in the society and high achieving children. Me being in medical school, my younger sister a bank manager, elder one a teacher and their respective husband/fiance in good position in their fields too. None of those Neanderthals can boast that now, can they!?!. And ever since the strings have been cut, the more they think about the fact that we don't give a shit about them, the more they turn green.

If it was not clear both my paternal and maternal relatives are cave-men in the above sense. And they both have been treated the same way. While a few of them are obviously not bad, they get our heart-felt wishes and warm cordial invitations. Coming back to the problem at hand, all of these people, from various enemy camps are coming together for a few days at our place in May. And while they are all fun and frolic now, a slightest trigger will cause a nuclear precipitation, vaporising all the humanity and scorching all the hospitality. And anxiety, sleepless nights and intermittent hypertensive episodes is what my mother will get from trying to calm them down and act like civilised people. The poor women is already having nightmares. =(

Well!!! Its not always as bad as I made it sound. A lot of story telling, gossiping about others and comedy might also occur like old days. Women thrive and bond on gossiping about 3rd parties. And there's a slight possibility that everything might go well and have a happy ending (with no one dead) whatsoever. After all, we will be meeting them after a really long time. I haven't seen most of them since 7 or 8 years. That's since my uncle got married. So fingers crossed and we hope everything goes well, and I will be there to support my family physically, emotionally and verbally in case they need it. I am okay being uncivilised verbally every once in a while to defend my parents or anyone I love. So that's it for this time, see you soon.